Monday, December 19, 2011

The Nicest Christmas Card Came Today: by Diane Ogden

I haven't been at my blog desk for a long time. Sometimes life sends us lemons and it also sometimes takes certain people, me, longer than others to figure out how to make lemonade out of them. I must have lost my squeezer somewhere along the way this year. I am still working on squeezing them one by one by hand. And with a degree of osteo arthritis, it is taking me longer than usual. Obviously I do not have osteo of the brain. And possibly it was a bad analogy. Either way.....I am coming out of it. Thank God and myself not to mention this card sure helped a bunches.
So today I received a beautiful hand made Christmas card from my son Daniel. I wanted to share it with you. He makes them by hand as he is incarcerated http://tucsonprisonlife.com
He makes them for the other inmates to send home and they pay him with stamps or food treats.

This was lemonade via the U.S. Penitentiary via the U.S. Mail Service.
Thanks Dan, I love you and I probably wasn't the easiest Mom or the best Mom either. Forgiveness is free. We both learned that one.

Julianna Rowe: My pseudonym or pen name

"Writing stories with parts of my life mingled within the pages takes me to places I love. It also re-writes certain pages of my life that needed a few touch ups. Sort of like when you wake from a bad dream and fix the ending before totally waking up. That is what my books are about. Truths and fabrications within the walls of my mind. Mostly fabrications from my vivid imagination."

My Lifebook "More Than Meets the Eye"

Love Letters.....from Daddy.

About the Book

Letters to his daughters while incarcerated.....

Feeling helpless, alone, and unable to offer a touch, Daniel spent hours drawing, writing, offering advice the only way he could. These were all written in 2004 until I assembled all the ones I could find into this book for his daughters to hold on to until he comes home.